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Issue No.11 - November (2002 vol.24)
pp: 1455-1467
ABSTRACT
<p><b>Abstract</b>—We describe a robust and efficient system for recognizing typeset and handwritten mathematical notation. From a list of symbols with bounding boxes the system analyzes an expression in three successive passes. The Layout Pass constructs a Baseline Structure Tree (BST) describing the two-dimensional arrangement of input symbols. Reading order and operator dominance are used to allow efficient recognition of symbol layout even when symbols deviate greatly from their ideal positions. Next, the Lexical Pass produces a Lexed BST from the initial BST by grouping tokens comprised of multiple input symbols; these include decimal numbers, function names, and symbols comprised of nonoverlapping primitives such as “=”. The Lexical Pass also labels vertical structures such as fractions and accents. The Lexed BST is translated into <tmath>$\LaTeX$</tmath>. Additional processing, necessary for producing output for symbolic algebra systems, is carried out in the Expression Analysis Pass. The Lexed BST is translated into an Operator Tree, which describes the order and scope of operations in the input expression. The tree manipulations used in each pass are represented compactly using tree transformations. The compiler-like architecture of the system allows robust handling of unexpected input, increases the scalability of the system, and provides the groundwork for handling dialects of mathematical notation.</p>
INDEX TERMS
Document image analysis, recognition of mathematical notation, diagram recognition, tree transformation, graphics recognition.
CITATION
Richard Zanibbi, Dorothea Blostein, James R. Cordy, "Recognizing Mathematical Expressions Using Tree Transformation", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, vol.24, no. 11, pp. 1455-1467, November 2002, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2002.1046157
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